Washington D.C. boasts a unique system of neighborhood governance, but a proposed bill would eliminate the rights of District residents to hold their most local officials accountable.
Continue readingSunlight Foundation’s Alex Howard testifies before D.C. City Council committee
Sunlight Senior Analyst Alex Howard testified before the City Council of the District of Columbia's Committee on Housing and Community Development.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: President Obama signs FOIA reform into law
WIN: In a victory for open government, President Barack Obama signed the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 into law yesterday... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Mr. Periscope goes to Washington
PROGRESS: Building on a decade of reforms to legislative data disclosure, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan committed to making... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Help us improve our census of open data in U.S. cities
The Sunlight Foundation is taking on more responsibility for administering the next US City Open Data Census and would love... View Article
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Transit data – a major success story for common data standards
When data becomes open and commonly formatted, trends such as job access, mobility, equity, health, and others, are illuminated to show the effects of transportation in a community.
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: House to vote on FOIA reform
WITNESSING HISTORY: The U.S House of Representatives will vote on S.337 (The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016) today under Suspension... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Pay to sway
Trump’s political donations to state candidates top $800,000 in nearly 15 states QUID PRO WHAT? The presumptive presidential nominee of... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: Shutting down the internet is inimical to open government
If 1) public information should be online, 2) access to information is a right, and 3) an informed public is... View Article
Continue readingToday in OpenGov: The Declassification Engine is in gear
HISTORY AS DATA: You might recall reading about the “Declassification Engine” in Wired back in 2013. Well, a new Freedom... View Article
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